Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-05-15
BILL NYE REPORTS A SERMON.
How the Gospel is ENPoundsd From the
Pulpit Of n southern Baptist Church to
the Great BENEFIT of All Hearers.

AsHEvULLE, n. C., April S.-A few
weeks ago l had the solemn satisfaction Of
listening to Rev. Buchu Brown, the color
ell pastor of the Mount Pisgah Fire-PrOOf
Baptist Church. Mr.. Brown is a selEmade
man, with a low, mellow voice and large
mournrul eyes. He begins in q soft, sOOth-
ing strain and gradually gets up =
pNipt where a common sinner without in
i~Iuential friends feels rs if he didn't weigh
more than eight pounds. One of the pecu-
~Iiaritiys of Rev. Buchu Brown is that he
never saw n passage OF scripture That ne
would not cheerlully undertake TO eX-
pound. No matter how a line or n chapter
may have worried aud annoyed the learned
doctors of divinity, Buchu Brown will
take IT without previous consideration and
clear it mp.
After depositing a dry, hacking cough in
the palm of his hand, Mr., Brown said we
would sing:
There is a fountain filled with blood,
Drud from AmanueI~ veins,
And sinners plunged beneath thai HOOD
Lose all their guilty stains.
He then offered a prayer, in which he
made n most astounding exposure OF his
congregation to the Lord, but hoped that
in wrath lie would remember mercy"
Another hymn was then sung by the
entire congregation, and, as it was iamI-
liar, / Joined in it with my rich nlSetto
voice. IL had been years since the music
had called forth in me an answering mel
ody. and many months had passed since
INV bird-like voice had Heated out upon
the quiet air in song.
After the hymn was over the pastor rose
and said that while he WIS glad TO have
| outsiders drop in ut the services OF the
Mount Pisgah Fire-ProOf Baptist Church
AT any time. he would see that the next
man who tried To break up the meeting
was put out, il he had to do 1t himself.
did not join in singing the other
hymns. .
Colored people are passionately fond of
music, hut they do not care much for
classical music.
The Rev. Mr.. Brown took a text, hut
do not remember what it was.
Neither did he.
He spoke of various people referred to in
| the Bible, and his serrDOn was like Mr..
! W,rd's urcat panorama l~eCture-ChIetly
characterized by the large number oI
things in it that had nothing to do With 1t.
remember that he referred incidentally
| 10 Pontius PLATE:
"And what kline of n man was Paunchus
Plate?
"What kline OF n man would you reckon
he wus to look att
.'Wus he tall and slim like a young sap
lin
Not much, He was a big, broad man,
wild doubie chins onto him as fur rs de eye
could reach.
"Paunchus Pllate!
"Hum dat name over softly to yourselves,
kline friends, and see eft you don't conclude
dat he was a wide man.
Later on he rebuked the youth of his con
preOation for various kinds of seemingly
harmless sports, and rebuked the parents
for permitting them. Among others he
swept across the playground with the be-
som of his wrath and attacked the game o.
marbles.
He showed how marbles led to gambling,
and gambling to razors, and razors to the
''gallus."
Moreover, bredren,' he added in a low,
tremulous tone, what do de scripter
say?"
DO not de blessed word oh de Lord say
oher and ober again, Marble not?'
OF course | nave only space in a brle,
letter like this to touch lightly upon the
more saliant points of MI. Browns ser
mon, and il will necessarily look rather
disconnected in the way am compelled t'
give it. though it did not sound SO at thu
time.
remember that he alluded TO the pes,
thence that walketh in darkness, ant
after he had shown it up in all its horrors
he threw a binding glare OF light uPoI
this passage of scripture, which has beeI
TO me heretofore rs a sealed book, by an
~nouncing that it referred to what Is callec
by naturalists and biologists the bedbug
lie then warmed up the lukewarm ant
went for those who were prone to expert
enee religion one day and baekslide tn,
next. He had no patience with such PEG